A Candle Going Out

Another religious one

Inside an empty church

The last candle’s going out

With no one to relight it,

No soul to be found

As the stained-glass saints

Continue looking down

Judging with unseeing eyes

Sneering with a frown

 

The pews disused and empty

No hymns do fill these halls

Just oppressive silence

Contained within the walls

While the dust upon the alter

Rests like a funeral pall

If heard a plaintive cry for help

What God would heed its call?

 

The dying light plays softly

Over the martyred son

Shrouding him in shadows

From the cross he carried once

As the flame is snuffed

Finality has come

And the cult of “progress”

Has another battle won

 

The church falls to disrepair

And ruin creeps within

A cycle has repeated

As it will again

For against the march of time

Nothing else can win

And something new will take its place

To burden you with “sin”

 

Inside an empty church

There’s a candle going out…

Reviews

[Emerald Seas]

I do like this one very much. I keep saying I'm not a religious one, more spiritual, but I am in a church pew early every Sunday morning- so go figure. I guess, some people need that affect of the surrounding congregation and the building surroundings to feel connected, sharing in worship... I guess that is it.

I do enjoy the priests at my new church, but that's because they actually come across human. And then there is the cool new Pope... Jeez, I might find the Catholic church not so horrible after all these days. I'm still more spiritual no matter what, and I have no bones about chatting with Fr Kevin on my little take on things... you're gonna find God in life around you more than in the walls of a church... at least that's how I see it, the big picture - it all boils down to a good heart. If you have it, a good heart, and can see it in your fellow man, you're gonna do alright. :) Really - well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!